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Rare Fossils Give Clues to How Tardigrades Survived Mass Extinctions by Hitting the Snooze Button
A new study of the fossils of early tardigrades is shedding light on their evolution, including when and why the eight-legged ...
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Indestructible — The Astonishing Tardigrade
When the German zoologist Ephraim Goeze first recognized, described, and named the kleiner Wasserbär (“Little Waterbear”) in 1773, he could not yet have guessed that he had found the Chuck Norris of ...